Official Textile Reference Manual for RedCloth 4

Introduction

Textile is a simple text format to be used when writing on blogs, wikis, and documents. This guide presumes no knowledge of HTML, though you may certainly use it if what you want to accomplish is more complex than Textile allows.

This guide is the official Textile reference manual for RedCloth 4. The examples shown here may not work properly on prior versions of RedCloth or other Textile processors.

This manual just skims the surface of what’s possible with RedCloth. For detailed usage examples, see the spec fixtures or simply try it yourself on the home page or using the redcloth binary on the command line. If you notice errors and omissions in this manual, please send me an

To get started learning Textile, click Writing Paragraph Text in the table of contents at the right. If you’re familiar with HTML, check the Show HTML output box on each page to see the code produced by each Textile example.